Several festivals are held each year in Scott County, ranging from the popular Firemen's Fourth Festival in Huntsville each Independence Day to the annual Planting Day Festival in the Big South Fork NRRA each spring.
Firemen's Fourth:
The Firemen's Fourth Festival is sponsored by the Huntsville Fire Department, and is held on the Courthouse Mall in Huntsville each July 3 and 4. The event includes live entertainment, arts & crafts, carnival rides, and concessions each day, with a Fourth of July parade at 11 a.m. each July 4th and one of the region's largest fireworks displays at 10 p.m. each July 4 evening. Firemen's Fourth website.
Appalachian Dumplin' Festival:
The Town of Winfield hosts the Appalachian Dumplin' Festival each Memorial Day weekend. The event is traditionally held on the Saturday preceding Memorial Day, and takes place at the Winfield Municipal Building parking lot and surrounding grounds. Antique cars, live bluegrass music, dumplin's with all the fixin's (and plenty of other food), and fireworks are some of the things found at the Dumplin' Festival each year. Dumplin' Festival website.
Heritage Festival:
Each September, the staff and students of Scott High School offer local residents and visitors alike an opportunity to revisit the good ol' days at the Museum of Scott County, on the campus of Scott High School. Bluegrass music, Civil War re-enactments, sorghum-making, arts and crafts, traditional foods, and other throwbacks to the frontier way of life can be found at the festival.
Spring Planting Festival:
The National Park Service hosts a planting festival each spring near Bandy Creek in the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area. Blacksmithing, basket-weaving, hand-spinning, weaving, wood-carving, chair-caning, soap-making and more are on display, along with mountain music, as the park service celebrates the Appalachian way of life of yesteryear in late April or early May each year. Planting Celebration website.
Haunting in the Hills:
Crafts demonstrations and workshops, storytelling workshops, and evening storytelling are on display each year in late September at Bandy Creek in the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area. Professional storytellers from around the country gather at Bandy Creek to tell ghost stories and entertain. Haunting in the Hills website.
